Concerned about ChatGPT in the Classroom?
This informal conversation, facilitated by Zaman Sarker and Sheetal Sood, will allow you to share ideas, concerns, and conversations about the implications of new AI tools like ChatGPT on teaching and learning. The session will be held on Feb. 22, from 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m., on MS Teams. Attached, please find a document that might spur some thinking and provides some background resources on ChatGPT.
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Presenter Bios:
Sarker is an assistant professor at the department of Computing Sciences at the University of Hartford. He loves to invent new stuff (research) and, at the same time, build stuff (software engineering). Sarker's research has been published in top artificial intelligence conferences and journals. So far, his research has contributed to more than $1.2 million in funding from DARPA and AFRL. His research domain spans the broad field of artificial intelligence and its application. Some specific topics he focuses on now include but are not limited to: Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Cybersecurity. Sarker has real-world software engineering experience for three years. He worked at Samsung Electronics and Intel Corporation to develop software. Read more on his personal website mdkzaman.com.
Associate Professor Sheetal Sood teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in special education. She helps pre-service teachers develop and differentiate between wide ranges of instructional strategies to ensure that their students can reach their highest academic potential. Professional Interests: Sood's research interests focus on investigating methods to improve mathematics instruction for pre-K through elementary school students who are at risk of or are identified with a disability. In addition, she is also interested in early intervention, instructional design, textbook analysis, and curriculum-based assessment. Her most recent research focuses on the impact of Number Sense instruction on mathematics competence of kindergarten students.